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San Jose, CA All Time

289,949 patents  ·  32,062 inventors  ·  286.2/1k pop.

Ranked #12 of 111,555 cities Top 1%

San Jose, CA ranks #12 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 289,949 patents from 32,062 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in San Jose, CA include Cisco, Google, Qualcomm. That works out to 286.2 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 14,001–14,050 of 32,062 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12320 Thao P. Trieu — 4
#12320 Wingo Cheong Cisco 4
#12320 Miklos Szentkiralyi Google 4
#12320 Gaurav Avinash Patil Qualcomm 4
#12320 Luojian Chen Oath 4
#12320 Ching Tai National Semiconductor 4
#12320 Kevin Du Western Digital Technologies 4
#12320 Kenneth U. Victa Apple 4
#12320 Ed Wright Apple 4
#12320 Branislav Stojkovic Meta 4
#12320 Klaassen Berend Klaassen IBM 4
#12320 Victor Carrasco Meta 4
#12320 Ed Cox Abb Schweiz Ag 4
#12320 Daniel Lee AT&T 4
#12320 Nina Cathryn Bordeaux Velo3D 4
#12320 Sandeep Desai Applied Materials 4
#12320 Kristin Ellis Evalve 4
#12320 Ting-Mao Chang Synopsys 4
#12320 Narayanan Swaminathan NVIDIA 4
#12320 Prabu Gopalraja Applied Materials 4
#12320 Lucita Arenas Jimenez Sri International 4
#12320 Dolores Frances Nelson Plantronics 4
#12320 Roger Y. Lo — 4
#12320 Guanglei An Micron 4
#12320 George Feltovich Network Appliance 4
#12320 Jingjian Ren Sandisk Technologies 4
#12320 Nickolas Westman Mk Systems Usa 4
#12320 John N. Fitzgerald Adobe 4
#12320 Benjamin Nguyen IBM 4
#12320 Dongye Pan Entit Software 4
#12320 Perv Rastogi Ebay 4
#12320 Tianshu Chen Ubiquiti 4
#12320 Carlos Hernandez Ubiquiti 4
#12320 Dennis Holmes Emc Ip Holding Company 4
#12320 Jeffrey D. Philips Measurement Systems 4
#12320 Arjun Abraham Mathew PayPal 4
#12320 Vaishali V. Pandya IBM 4
#12320 Marcio Saito Avocent Fremont 4
#12320 Meena Sankaran — 4
#12320 Farhad Farahbakhshian Naked Labs Austria Gmbh 4
#12320 Michael J. Beggs Abbott 4
#12320 Shyam Sundar Vaidyanathan Cisco 4
#12320 Ahmed I Hussein Apple 4
#12320 Hsin-Ying Chiu Apple 4
#12320 Chris Couts-Martin Intel 4
#12320 Sebastian Haviuj Ziesler Hitachi 4
#12320 In C. Shim Mobience 4
#12320 Bruce M. Wright Fmc 4
#12320 Mehmet Hakan Isbiliroglu Opentv 4
#12320 Keith Mark Evans Hughes Electronics Limited 4

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